Harvey Weinstein reportedly made his assistants buy erectile dysfunction drugs for him with his company credit card

Harvey Weinstein's years of alleged sexual harassment
and assault were enabled by a "complicity machine" that
included tabloid journalists and assistants, according to
a New York Times report.

Weinstein reportedly made his "low-level assistants"
help facilitate his alleged encounters with women and procure
"penile injections" for his erectile dysfunction.

One of Weinstein's former assistants, who told the
Times she was forced to provide him with erectile dysfunction
drugs, also told
Variety that she is planning to sue Weinstein for sexual
harassment.

Harvey Weinstein had an extensive network of enablers who helped
him cover up years of alleged sexual harassment and assault,
according to
a New York Times report published Tuesday.

Weinstein reportedly sought the help of agents and
tabloid journalists in an effort to undermine his accusers.
He also reportedly forced some of his "low-level assistants" to
help facilitate his alleged encounters with women, and even made
them procure "penile injections" for his erectile dysfunction.

Two of Weinstein's former assistants, Sandeep Rehal and Michelle
Franklin, told the Times that they were forced to provide
Weinstein with the injectable erectile dysfunction drugs
Caverject and alprostadil, and that they helped arrange his
repeated encounters with women.

Franklin told the Times that Weinstein fired her in 2012
after she told the movie mogul, "It's not my job, and I don’t
want to do it," in response to arranging his encounter with a
woman who later appeared "emotionally bruised."

Rehal told the Times that Weinstein paid for his erectile
dysfunction drugs and other items for his encounters with his
company credit card, and she said that Weinstein paid her a $500
bonus for supplying the drugs.

Rehal's attorney also told
Variety on Wednesday that she plans to sue Weinstein for
sexual harassment. Rehal worked for Weinstein for two years,
before quitting in February 2015 due to an "intolerable work
environment," her attorney told Variety.

In a statement responding to the Times story, Weinstein's
attorneys, Blair Berk and Ben Brafman, said Weinstein did
not bill personal expenses to the company.

"At no time during his tenure at either Miramax or TWC did Mr.
Weinstein ever utilize company resources for personal
expenditures, and in the few instances where there was any
confusion, Mr. Weinstein immediately reimbursed the company out
of his own pocket," the attorneys said in their full statement,
as
Variety reported.

Weinstein's lawyers declined to comment further when contacted by
Business Insider.

Weinstein was
fired from The Weinstein Company board on October 8,
following bombshell reports from The New York Times and The New
Yorker that detailed decades-spanning allegations of sexual
harassment and assault against him.

The
8,000-word New York Times report published Tuesday details
the full extent of Weinstein's history of efforts to cover up his
alleged misconduct, and it's worth a read.